John F. Kennedy, President, 1961-1963 Kennedy's brief Presidency, terminated by assassination, still has glamour attached...
Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...
John Colet and Sir Thomas More: The Publishing Trade in London in the Early 16th Century In 1509 John Colet and Thomas More joined the Mercers'...
Poetry & Immortality: John Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale' ‘Thou wast not born for Death! immortal bird/ No hungry...
The celestial geometry of John Flamsteed: Mapping the heavens from 17th century Greenwich During his 46 years as Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed elevated...
Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World - John Major Continuing last year's series of lectures, delivered by distinguished guest...
Adultery in the Novel, from Flaubert to Sally Rooney Adultery became the subject of some of the greatest European...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...